300 Quotes on Play

• Through the frame of playful curiosity, we find gravity confining our perspective yet liberating our imagination to dance in boundless realms of wonder.

  Author: Maya Kingsley

• Within each question lies the weight of possibility; in that infinite frivolity thorough imagination dances.

  Author: Ayleigh Thompson

• Curiosity unveils the universe not with demands, but with playful exploration, inviting us to mold daylight out of our wonder and discover the extraordinary in the mundane.

  Author: Elowen Pertasien

• Playful curiosity tosses the serious on its head, unlocking realms of imaginings that wisdom often convolutes.

  Author: Arden Zuppe

• To allow a child's questions to gravity pull us into the cosmos of wonder creates pathways within that broaden the horizons of adult bliss.

  Author: Calla Morrison

• Playful curiosity dances between mutual discovery and the infinite chase, knitting the fibers of knowledge into adventurous windows.

  Author: Aurora Vale

• Even the heaviest truths feel lighter when chased by the gleam of a curious spirit; in play, life's wonders unfold.

  Author: Dakota Fernando

• In the dance of whimsical query, where dreams unravel like autumn leaves, we find an anchor that invites the tide of wonderment any rebel soul should embrace.

  Author: Eurydice Campbell

• Playful curiosity finds weight in every question, inviting us to dance between innocence and enlightenment in the journey of discovery.

  Author: Alex Reed

• Offer a playful spirit all your questions, for they're the vital gutter where brilliance often flows unseen.

  Author: Lydia Memburgo

• Playful curiosity is the compass that directs us through the labyrinth of knowledge, allowing wonder to open doors multiple mayn't recognize.

  Author: Aria Finch

• Playful curiosity is the heartbeat of real exploration--in folly, we find the flavor of vibrant understanding, which dancing reinventions shape the pillars of wisdom.

  Author: Emerson Whitlock

• Playful curiosity is the gentle breeze that whispers new concepts for discovery amidst the burning desires of day-to-day desires.

  Author: Tracey Chaplain

• Playful curiosity sets the pace for exploration; each joyful question lifts the weight of the unfamiliar.

  Author: Ava Martinez

• The pursuit of playful curiosity isn't mere whimsy; it spaces between rooftops. Here, the mundane lifts, shimmers akin to voices echoing in a choir influenced by wonder.

  Author: Edel Truitt

• Embracing the tsunami of curiosity expands horizons, reminding us that 'weighty' knowledge can coexist beautifully with the joy-laden lightness of play.

  Author: Samira Newland

• Playful curiosity slaloms between the masquerade of truth and illusion, anchoring us in an awe for wonder through veins of joyful discovery.

  Author: Evelyne Vaak

• Playful curiosity invites the child within us to explore, reminding us that life's mysteries dance around us, waiting to be jazzed up with wonder and discovery.

  Author: Eleanor Winter

• Playful curiosity crafts a sandwiches plethora of perspectives, inviting fractures of the known textures into the savory understanding of sophisticated dilemmas.

  Author: Selene Orbital

• Embracing playful curiosity is like orchestrating a symphony in the brain; each inquiry resonates with discovery, unfolding harmony where structured productivity ceases to exist.

  Author: Alexia Moore

• Playful curiosity sways like a dance between possibility and imagination; in its embrace, boundaries blur and the beauty of discovery awaits.

  Author: Clara Devor

• In the playful ripples of curiosity lies the essence of discovery; every light laughter unleashing a joy like gravity pulling ourselves deeper into the wonder of existence.

  Author: Ameliaentu Park

• To embrace important stories are stepping stones to shared revelations; curious child-ground!

  Author: Jaya Luminaire

• Amidst the meadow of imagination, playful curiosity weaves strands of otherwise - unlocking windows of innovation while grounding the heart in joy.

  Author: Elara Winters

• Playful curiosity is the secret translator of wonder, turning the mundane into realms of potential through laughter and questions.

  Author: Sophia Meinhardt

• Playful curiosity transforms the weight of puzzles into a dance of discovery, where let the impossible propel our feasting imaginations.

  Author: Grant Holdren

• Playful curiosity is the compass that navigates the uncharted wilderness of the mind, leading us to wonders hidden in laughter and daunting truths wrapped in games.

  Author: Clara Owetski

• Playful curiosity is the magnet that draws innovation and wonder towards our most haunted shadows of certainty.

  Author: Lila Abernathy

• OHolding wonder over wisdom allows playful roots to nourish the summoned mirrors of reality.

  Author: Avery Scott

• In the dance of relationship and wonder, playful curiosity mirrors gravity, pulling us towards insights not thought of yet.

  Author: Cassian Moore

• Within the orbit of our questions lies the bright gravity of connectedness, beckoning us to explore with a vibrancy that awakens even the dullest of dreams.

  Author: Sydney Harrington

• There is an incredible weight in our unrelenting pursuit of joy; play becomes the spark that challengingly pulls us to explore limitless bounds unexpectedly. That enigmatic pull presses not just the brilliance of inquiry, but more marvelous marvel of being engaged with both trial and enjoyment equally.

  Author: Finnegan Hart

• Creativity is intelligence at play

  Author: Albert Einstein

• Creativity is intelligence at play.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

  Author: Israel Zangwill

• It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

  Author: Robin Yount

• I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

  Author: Robin Yount

• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Author: Robin Yount

• Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

  Author: Neil Young

• I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

  Author: James Young

• And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

  Author: James Young

• And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

  Author: James Young

• Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

  Author: Michael York

• I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

  Author: Michael York

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  Author: Dick York

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  Author: Aaron Yoo

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  Author: Carl Yastrzemski

• When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play.

  Author: Will Wright

• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Author: Will Wright

• I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

  Author: Steven Wright

• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Author: Chely Wright

• God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

  Author: Link Wray

• Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

  Author: Fay Wray

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  Author: Fay Wray

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  Author: Fay Wray

• What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

  Author: John Wozniak

• My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

  Author: John Wozniak

• We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

  Author: Frank Woolley

• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.

  Author: Roy Wood

• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  Author: Roy Wood

• Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

  Author: Roy Wood

• I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

  Author: Donald Wolfit

• As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!

  Author: Scott Wolf

• The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  Author: P. Wodehouse

• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  Author: P. Wodehouse

• Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I do play drums when I'm on tour.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

  Author: Kip Winger

• The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

  Author: Kip Winger

• We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

  Author: Kip Winger

• The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

  Author: Teddy Wilson

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

  Author: Dennis Wilson

• A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

  Author: Colin Wilson

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  Author: Carl Wilson

• For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

  Author: August Wilson

• I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

  Author: August Wilson

• As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

  Author: August Wilson

• It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  Author: Venus Williams

• It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

  Author: Treat Williams

• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

  Author: Ted Williams

• The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

  Author: Serena Williams

• I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

  Author: Serena Williams

• We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.

  Author: Pat Williams

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  Author: Otis Williams

• Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

  Author: Mary Williams

• He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

  Author: Mary Williams

• Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

  Author: Mary Williams

• Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

  Author: Mary Williams

• I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

  Author: JoBeth Williams

• Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

  Author: Jason Williams

• We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

  Author: Jason Williams

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  Author: Ian Williams

• Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

  Author: Eric Williams

• My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

  Author: Eric Williams

• I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

  Author: Eric Williams

• I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

  Author: Claude Williams

• Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

  Author: Charles Williams

• I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

  Author: Jonny Wilkinson

• I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

  Author: Jonny Wilkinson

• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• A play visibly represents pure existing.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

  Author: Mark White

• Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

  Author: Gilbert White

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  Author: E. White

• I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

  Author: Timothy West

• There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

  Author: Timothy West

• No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

  Author: Timothy West

• We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  Author: H. Wells

• If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

  Author: Peter Weir

• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Author: Mike Weir

• I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

  Author: Mike Weir

• All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

  Author: Hugo Weaving

• Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

  Author: Charlie Watts

• People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• You have to play the logic of a character.

  Author: Emily Watson

• I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

  Author: Doc Watson

• We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

  Author: Doc Watson

• If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

  Author: Roger Waters

• I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

  Author: Shane Warne

• I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

  Author: Shane Warne

• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Author: Shane Warne

• The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

  Author: Shane Warne

• However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

  Author: Sela Ward

• One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

  Author: Lalla Ward

• In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

  Author: Fred Ward

• As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

  Author: Fred Ward

• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  Author: Burt Ward

• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Author: Hugh Walpole

• Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

  Author: Jerry Walker

• I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

  Author: Honus Wagner

• In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

  Author: Honus Wagner

• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Author: Voltaire

• I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

  Author: Jon Voight

• Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

  Author: Jon Voight

• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Author: Don Vliet

• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

  Author: Boris Vian

• I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

  Author: Gwen Verdon

• Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

  Author: Paz Vega

• Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

  Author: Bill Veeck

• The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  Author: Vince Vaughn

• All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

  Author: Michael Vartan

• To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Author: Harry Vardon

• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Author: Harry Vardon

• We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

  Author: Raoul Vaneigem

• I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

  Author: Wilmer Valderrama

• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  Author: Midge Ure

• I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

  Author: Johnny Unitas

• It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I get to play a killer next.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

  Author: Bob Uecker

• Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

  Author: Thomas Tusser

• If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

  Author: John Turturro

• I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

  Author: John Turturro

• I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

  Author: Ike Turner

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